From left, Amber Guzman, Anthony Kirby, Leslie Hernandez, Chance Rubalcado and Maya Blackstone in a scene from "The Time-Traveling Love Paradox of Camp Punikaka in 4-D," playing Thursday at South High.

Travel through time with South High students

Maya Blackstone, left, and Leslie Hernandez in a scene from "The Time-Traveling Love Paradox of Camp Punikaka in 4-D," playing Thursday at South High.

Courtesy of Antonio Garcia

From left, Amber Guzman, Anthony Kirby, Leslie Hernandez, Chance Rubalcado and Maya Blackstone in a scene from "The Time-Traveling Love Paradox of Camp Punikaka in 4-D," playing Thursday at South High.

Courtesy of Antonio Garcia

Chance Rubalcado, standing, attempts to set events right in South High's "The Time-Traveling Love Paradox of Camp Punikaka in 4-D."

Over at South High School, they're not doing anything by half-measures. So when it came time to produce their last full-scale production of 2018 — "The Time-Traveling Love Paradox of Camp Punikaka in 4-D" — students and staff went all out with lasers, a sing-along, Girl Scouts and more.

The play, being performed one night only on Thursday, will be the last in the school's current Performing Arts Center, which will soon be renovated. Given the circumstances, cast and crew have staged a fully interactive theatrical performance, which will be the first Kern High School District theater show to be live-streamed via the district’s media channel, the Kern High Network.

“It’s bittersweet that our last performance as seniors in this building will be the first time a big audience will get a chance to see what South High has to offer in terms of theater,” says Leslie Hernandez, a senior with four years in the theater program who stars in the play.

Written and directed by South theater instructor Antonio Garcia, "Paradox" follows Noelle Taylor (Maya Blackstone) and Xavier Alexander (Rebel theater newcomer Chance Rubalcado), who escape through a time-traveling portal with a mysterious Terminator-like Tracker hot on their heels. They land on the other side of the vortex in a place more terrifying than the two could ever expect: Camp Punikaka circa 1993.

"Paradox" mixes humor with youthful romance and a touch of sci-fi fantasy, bringing the show to life in dazzling four dimensions, utilizing lasers, an audience sing-along, Girl Scouts and mystery audience members.

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